The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art with an emphasis in Graphic Design offers students the opportunity to explore essential cultural and professional systems through creative visual practice. Students in the Graphic Design program enjoy the benefits of close relationships with the St. Louis visual arts professional community. Our professors maintain a rigorous program that prepares students for immediate employment as professionals in the creative industry. Students receive professional practice development with a new attention paid to entrepreneurial skills.<br><br>Upon completion of the BFA in Art with an Emphasis in Graphic Design, graduates will be able to develop visual and verbal responses to visual phenomena and organize perceptions and conceptualizations both rationally and intuitively, explain the major achievements in the history of art and design, develop the capacity to identify and/or solve visual problems within a variety of physical, technological, social and cultural contexts, explain and evaluate contemporary thinking about art or design, develop competence in a number of art or design techniques, and make valid assessments of quality and effectiveness in design projects and works of art, especially their own.